Security News > 2020 > July > Cloud environments are making the security alert overload problem worse

Slow-moving automation efforts and an increase in cloud environments are intensifying the alert overload crisis for security teams, according to a new study.

SEE: TechRepublic Premium editorial calendar: IT policies, checklists, toolkits, and research for download. Big companies report up to 1,000 security alerts a day, and 86% of survey respondents are concerned about burnout, high levels of stress, and flight risk among security teams, due to the daily volume of alerts.

Seventy-five percent of respondents said cloud infrastructures generate more security alerts than on-prem environments.

Sixty-five percent of companies have only partially automated security alert processing while only 5% have not implemented any alert workflow automation.

The high number of alerts: 43%.The complexity of operation: 40%.Not enough context for threat investigations: 37%.Lack of threat visibility across both on-prem and cloud environments: 33%. Also, companies that use different SIEM solutions for cloud platforms and on-prem networks are more likely to report a lack of threat visibility in both environments.

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